Calls for entries deadline: 1 October 2011 Cologne International Videoart Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org
--------------------------------- 3 calls: 1. Football - Soccer - Fussball 2. Let's Save the World!? 2. "Mexican Visions" - videoart from Mexico wanted! --------------------------------- 1. Call for entries Deadline 1 October 2011 "Football - Soccer - Fussball" In 2012, in Poland and Ukraine the "European Football Championships" will be held showing once again how deeply rooted football (US- soccer) is in the contemporary society. Cologne International Videoart Festival is looking for its nomadic festival project CologneOFF (2011/2012) - videoart in a globale context 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2012 for experimental films and video art - dealing with --> football (soccer) as an artistic topic, --> the enthusiasm people all over the world is encouraging, but also not to forget --> phenomenons like hoogligans, violence or drugs. Football is a complex social phenomenon which is more than worth to be reflected in new forms of contemporary art. CologneOFF is inviting film- and videomakers all over the world to contribute and submit experimental films and video art by using the entry form on - http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3245 ------------------------------------------------------ 2. Call for entries extended deadline: 1 October 2011 Let's Save the World !? 2011 was the year when people all over the world became aware again how vurnerable nature, but also the human species are. Especially, the disasters in Japan - earthquake/tsunami and nuclear - were causing countless human tragedies making all of us clear, neither nature nor technology can be controlled by humans. But these desasters stand in a long row of phenomenons with increasing negative effects on the enviroments we humans are living in, like global climate warming, global migrating, misuse of natural resources etc, and there is the real danger that our living sources are already destroyed before we actually are ready to react. Let's Save the World!? - is the theme of a special selection to be made in the framework of the nomadic festival project "CologneOFF 2011/2012 - videoart in a global context" http://coff.newmediafest.org which is not only appealing to work actively for the survival of our blue planet, but dealing with the questions what can be done to save the world and how can it be done, with environmental issues & substainability, social & global responsibility and much more. Artists working with "moving images" are invited to deal with all these and many more questions in their experimental films and videoart, to contribute and submit to this call by using the entry form on - http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3251 ------------------------------------------- 3. Call for entries Deadline: 1 October 2011 "Mexican Visions" open call for national (Mexican) videomakers Circuito Electrovisiones Mexico & CologneOFF released a comon open call --> Mexican visions // art and moving images experimental films and videoart wanted! In order to promote the dissemination of video art and experimental film, Cologne International Videoart Festival (CologneOFF) and Circuito Electrovisiones open this call for anyone interested in participating in the selection of videos -Mexican visions / / art and moving images - which will become part of the festival context CologneOFF 2012. Mexican visions / / art and moving images will be presented in the framework of CologneOFF 2012 online, as well as in physical events to be scheduled in different countries. More details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3525 ------------------------------------------- Cologne International Videoart Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org operated & powered by artvideoKOELN- the curatorial initiative "art and moving images" http.//video.mediaartcologne.org 2011 (at) coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
